DIE
Definition:
- [noun] small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers
Synonyms: dice
- [noun] a device used for shaping metal
- [noun] a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
- [verb] pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"
Synonyms: decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass
- [verb] suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"
- [verb] be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame; "I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"; "We almost died laughing during the show"
- [verb] stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
Synonyms: fail, go bad, give way, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
- [verb] feel indifferent towards; "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
- [verb] languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
- [verb] cut or shape with a die; "Die out leather for belts"
Synonyms: out
- [verb] to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
- [verb] lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall"
Synonyms: pall, become flat
- [verb] disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"
- [verb] suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"
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Related Words:
- suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate
- buy it, pip out
- drown
- kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
- predecease
- starve, famish
- fall
- succumb, yield
- crash, go down
- blow out, burn out, blow
- misfire
- malfunction, misfunction
- five-spot
- four-spot
- six-spot
- stamp